Active projects

Below is a short description for each of Knowel’s current projects

South Africa 2016/2017 – Entrepreneurial Skills Exchange

The South Africa Project 2016 consisted in spreading and sharing entrepreneurial skills between students from Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs in Cape Town, South Africa. The project consisted in a two-day workshop featuring 12 entrepreneurs from different backgrounds and company visits with individual consultations.Read more

Previous projects

Below is a short description for each of Knowel’s previous projects

Indonesia 2015 – Sustainability through entrepreneurship

Together with Indonesian organisations and local populous we want to examine ways to adapt electricity implementation to rural villages needs and be part of developing a more sustainable micro hydro electricity plant integration. We also want to share our own knowledge in entrepreneurship and equip the local team with the tools required to execute and sustain the venture we started together.Read more

Guatemala 2015 – Spreading Social Entrepreneurship

This project targets university students in Guatemala City and the goal is to support them in creating and implementing initiatives that will have an impact in Guatemala’s rural communities. We also want to include those brave social entrepreneurs, who are already active and lift them up by letting them show how they’re changing people’s life and be an inspiration for those who want to jump in into the wonderful world of social entrepreneurship.Read more

Entrepreneurship Day – Chalmers

Last year we organized an Entrepreneurship day at Chalmers, it was such a success that it has been discussed within Chalmers if this is something they want to make a yearly event. For more information contact: adam.torkelsson@gmail.com

This project purpose is to contribute to society in Argentina through a shared knowledge platform for social entrepreneurship endeavors. The project aims to form an organization in Argentina that will engage in social entrepreneurship projects.Read more

The team for Laos 2014 aims to help local students and extension workers to document best practices for sustainable farming and fishing. Currently, overexploitation is threatening the food security of the poorest people of Laos.Read more

This is a continuation of the Tanzania project 2013, with the purpose of further strengthening Knowel’s presence and work in East Africa. The project’s goal is to increase understanding of the challenges currently faced in East Africa as well as the cultural differences.Read more

In this project we will focus on teenagers in high school in the Gothenburg area. Diet and food mania have turned out to be everyday food. There are a lot of messages of what to eat and how. On top of this, there are environmental and nutritional issues to be conscious about.

This Knowel project focused on sustainable business development for micro-entrepreneurs, basically offering our “consulting services” to entrepreneurs in need – free of charge. We set up mixed teams with students from Knowel and the University of Dar es Salaam and together visited local micro-entrepreneurs and tried to identify and solve problems that they have in their day-to-day business.Read more

The objectives of the project was to create incentives for realizing sustainable business models in Kisumu, Kenya. The business model was developed on the basis of a product – a portable solar powered light. We held entrepreneurial workshops where local entrepreneurs, young students, entrepreneurs and others were given the opportunity to undergo a 9-day intensive program.Read more

Knowel created an illustrative book about how to prevent accidents caused by insufficient safety provisions within the technological field, as safety development often lagged behind the rapid movement of innovation. This book was distributed in 17 villages in rural Savannakhet, Laos during October 2011.Read more